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    Armageddon T. ThunderbirdHamilton Nolan
    4/28/16 1:05pm

    McNuggets have been a disappointment ever since they went all “white” “meat” years (decades?) ago.

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      toothpetardArmageddon T. Thunderbird
      4/28/16 1:23pm

      I for one, am eager to savor the flavoriness of the McApology 9-pack.

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      Armageddon T. Thunderbirdtoothpetard
      4/28/16 1:25pm

      They will be tastishy.

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    AlloHamilton Nolan
    4/28/16 12:55pm

    Aww HamNo, why that picture??! My stomach just lurched. Just eat real chicken people.

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      DaveJavuAllo
      4/28/16 12:58pm

      It’s a Banksy.

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      Sluicer's ghostAllo
      4/28/16 1:03pm

      No, just eat real people.... mmmmcdonalds Long Pig! No additives!!!!!

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    dothedewHamilton Nolan
    4/28/16 12:56pm

    Someone help me out here. Packaged foods must contain a list of the ingredients as well as (apparently bullshit) nutritional information. Chain restaurants in NY - including McDs - must post calorie counts and other health/nutritional info. But McDs does not have to disclose the ingredients in its supposedly “chicken” nuggets? I don’t get it.

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      Hgdrhjfffbjkdothedew
      4/28/16 1:01pm

      Yes, they will when they start serving them. They declined to disclose them to Ad Age

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      Vandelaydothedew
      4/28/16 1:09pm

      They do post the ingredients on their website.

      http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food/pro…

      To see the process itself, let Grant Imahara enlighten you.

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    AllModConnedHamilton Nolan
    4/28/16 1:01pm

    Quite possibly the best graphic ever used for a Gawker post. Kudos.

    It really captures the nugget’s Je ne sais quoi!

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      Tom Waits's Old HatAllModConned
      4/28/16 1:15pm

      More like “Je ne veux pas savoir”.

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      AllModConnedTom Waits's Old Hat
      4/28/16 1:21pm

      oui oui

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    ThomasMooreHamilton Nolan
    4/28/16 2:58pm

    When I was a little kid we lived mostly overseas so fast-food was only an exotic dream vacation like going to Disneyland or riding a roller coaster. When we finally moved back stateside in the mid 1970's we would BEG my mother - literally fall down on the floor and clutch her ankles and beg her - to stop at McDonalds. The disgust eminating from her was palpable —for fast food and for our undignified display.

    “It’s garbage food. You may as well eat plastic.” She would say.

    The one time I got fast food I remember like it was yesterday. It was 1976. On my birthday. And the only present I wanted was to go to Burger King. That was my one and only present. And I fucking stuffed myself . My mother, wearing sun glasses and a head scarf like Jackie-O trying to be incognito, sat there stiffly whispering through clenched teeth “Hurry up with your McWhoppers for Christ sake. ...‘Have it your way’ Have what? Food poisoning?” And later, while shooting hoops with my idiot brother telling him about how awesome Burger King was like it was the Holy Land, I barfed all over our driveway. “It’s worth it” I’d spit up a piece of pickle. “It’s wo..OOORGH—rrth it.” My brother ran the toe of his sneaker through the barfed up burger like he was an oracle.

    Today my gut reaction to fast food is visceral disgust. I can’t help but be infected with my mothers ridiculous snobbishness. Though she’s not wrong. It is complete shit.

    But it’s like porn. God help me. I occasionally want fucking McNuggets so bad. So bad. So, so bad.

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      LoFi SciFiHamilton Nolan
      4/28/16 12:52pm

      I’m sitting in a McDonald’s in NYC eating Chicken Nuggets as this article appeared. Now I'm questioning my life choices.

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        godspeed aquaboyLoFi SciFi
        4/28/16 1:01pm

        Don’t feel badly. I think they are quite palatable (if eaten within 30 seconds of coming out of the fryer). Once they cool down and congeal, all the gross shit in them becomes tangible and edible.

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        HesterMofetLoFi SciFi
        4/28/16 1:22pm

        Don’t worry. They’re fine. HamNo is just a food elitist besserwisser. Enjoy your nuggets.

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      AlpacaHamilton Nolan
      4/28/16 1:11pm

      PDMS is added to many cooking oils as an anti-foaming agent to prevent oil splatter during the cooking process. The odds are you’re already consuming it from many other sources every day.. but good for using the long scientific name to scare people.

      Yes it is in silly putty, which is non toxic.

      Dihydrogen monoxide can be real dangerous too remember.

      Just because you cannot pronounce something, doesn’t mean it is dangerous.

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        opiumsmabytchAlpaca
        4/29/16 3:36pm

        Dihydrogen monoxide

        Eeeeeeeevil stuff that ;)

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      MaxPointHamilton Nolan
      4/28/16 4:07pm

      chicken mcnuggets taste good fuck all of you

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        KulturVulturHamilton Nolan
        4/28/16 1:04pm

        I’ve decided to raise chickens, mostly to f@ck with my HOA.

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          noodlesinthefaceHamilton Nolan
          4/28/16 1:09pm

          Just remember, if you can’t pronounce it, it’s scary and bad for you!

          That’s why I avoid any food that lists “ascorbic acid” (acids! yuk!) or “methylcobalamin” (sounds like methyl alcohol! that’s bad, right?) or anything scary like that.

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            Whitcombrileynoodlesintheface
            4/28/16 1:18pm

            Yep, that's Hamilton: Man of Science.

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            noodlesinthefaceWhitcombriley
            4/28/16 1:44pm

            Bingo. And note how it’s newsworthy that they’ll use “rice starch”. They make that by steeping rice in SODIUM HYDROXIDE. It needs to be handled with safety glasses and gloves! And they WANT TO USE THAT IN FOOD PROCESSING MY GOD.

            Oh, but the output will just be called “rice starch”, so that’s natural and healthful.

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